COML1060 - The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
403
Title (text only)
The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines
Term
2022C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
403
Section ID
COML1060403
Course number integer
1060
Meeting times
F 12:00 PM-12:59 PM
Meeting location
WILL 202
Level
undergraduate
Description
Do we still believe in spirits and ghosts? Do they have any place in an age of science of technology? Can they perhaps help us to define what a human being is and what it can do? We will venture on a journey through literary texts from the late eighteenth century to the present to explore the uncanny and fantastic in literature and life. Our discussions will be based on a reading of Sigmund Freud's essay on the uncanny, and extraordinary Romantic narratives by Ludwig Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel 125wthorne, Prosper Merimee, Villiers de Isle-Adam, and others.
Course number only
1060
Cross listings
GRMN1060403, GRMN1060403, GSWS1060403, GSWS1060403
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No